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i. Direct Coomb’s test
ii. Indirect Coomb’s test
iii. Antibody screening/Identification
HTAA, KUANTAN 3.3 Components Preparation Laboratory
iv. Red cell phenotyping

This section prepares and stores blood components. The blood components that are
available are whole blood, packed red cells, Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP), cryoprecipitate
and platelets concentrate.

3.4 Transfusion Microbiology Laboratory

This laboratory offers screening test for all donated blood.
The test includes:-

Hepatitis B : HBsAg and other markers
Hepatitis C : HCV Ag-Ab
Syphilis : RPR, TPPA
Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) : HIV Ag-Ab, PA
Nucleic acid testing (NAT) : (outsource to PDN)

4.0 ORDERING OF BLOOD

a. Ordering of blood for transfusion must be done only by the doctor in charge of
the patient requiring transfusion.
b. The Blood Transfusion Request Form (PPDK-5) must be completely filled and
signed by the doctor in charge of the case.
c. All the request for blood and blood component must have an approval from the
blood bank MO oncall.
d. Justified request will be given a code in which must be written on the top of the
request form.

5.0 COLLECTION OF BLOOD SAMPLE

a. All collection for blood samples must be done by a doctor.
b. The doctor must ensure that the blood is withdrawn from the correct patient
by proper patient identification (verbally, wrist band and Bed Head Ticket (BHT).
c. Each specimen tube should be labelled immediately at the bed side after blood
is collected from each patient by the same doctor.

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